Nothing is new under the sun, according to a popular saying. But this story sounds very much like a moonlight story set in ancient times. It is a true life story of a woman who made up her to sleep with her biological son just to test her fertility after failing to get pregnant for her husband in her second marriage.

Matina Agawua, a native of Yelwata, a remote settlement in Nasarawa State canfessed that she slept with the son she had from her first marriage to please her new husband who was threatening an end to their relationship if she would not conceive a baby.

The woman, who lost her first husband to herdsmen attack after they were married for about two years, had just a son and decided to remarry after 13 years of widowhood.

But for more than six years after getting married to her second husband, an indigene of Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa state identified simply as Mr. James, she could not conceive a child for what she said was no fault of hers.

“We had been married for more than six years but were still childless due to my husband’s fault, according to doctor’s report, and I was hearing from the grapevine that he was planning to take a second wife on the grounds that I could not give him a child” Matina said.

For Matina, trouble began barely two years into her marriage after her husband, Mr Philip (now late) died from a gunshot when some herdsmen invaded his village about two years later.

After Philip’s death, Matina had picked up courage to remain in the village since she had a son with her late husband. But owing to some irreconcilable differences between her and her husband’s relatives, she left the village and returned to Yelwata, her maternal home where she started a mini restaurant to eke out a living for herself and her only child.

She, however made up her mind to try her hands at love once more 13 years after her husband’s death. She subsquently met and fell in love with James, her second husband, and they later got married.

But the marriage ran into almost soon after it began, with the failure of the couple to have a child. Matters were said to have gone from bad to worse as Matina appeared to be giving more attention to her son than she was giving her second husband, causing James’s parents to feel that Matina was simply wasting their son’s time as she was incapable of bearing a child.

Pressures were mounted on James by his family, especially his mother, who was said to be particularly unhappy about the situation as she had eagerly looked forward to carrying her grandchild when the marriage was consummated. But six years down the line, there was no sign of pregnancy, much less a baby. Thus a plan commenced to get James a second wife.

Matina said she had undergone a test on her own since her husband refused to go for one, and the result showed that there was nothing wrong with her fertility. But to furtherconvince herself about her fertility status, she decided to lure her own son, a student in Akwanga, into a secret affair with a stem warming that he should not reveal it to anyone.

Matina said she did not want to fall in love with an outsider so as not to betray her husband or make him feel bad.

She said: “Since he is not comfortable with us going for medical checkup on the assumption that nothing was wrong with him, I decided to convince my little son, who is just about 16 years old and schooling in Akwanga

“I visited him regularly. He stays in a private apartment with my relatives, so I was going there to spend some time with them, especially on weekends when my market is off.

“It was actually difficult making love with my own son, but circumstances forced me to go into it. I needed to be sure of my fertility.

“I know my husband very well. If he discovered I had an affair with a man outside, he would kill me.

“I love him so much and I’m afraid of him, so this evil plan kept ringing in my mind to know how fertile I am.”

“I tried to visit my son in Akwanga mostly when I was on my ovulation period. I decided to develop a crush on him and draw him very close to me. We got intimate and ended up having s*x.

“One faithful day while I was on my ovulation period, I visited him. It was at about 11pm. I held his hand and made him sit beside me.

“I asked him if he had ever had s*x and he said no. I held him in my arms. This time, I felt warm and I think he too did.

“After that night, I felt extremely embarrassed, and guilty that I committed such an abomination with my own son.

“It was actually a taboo, but I warned him to keep it secret.

“But from that singular session with my son, l missed my period that very month of January 2022, and a medical test showed that I was pregnant.”

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